Book I. The Rojie Crncian Crovpn 5

with a Limbeck and in a(hcs fubJime the whole
dii^GiVtd fabftancc three tioaes which will then
be very whke and then it is exiled Msrc^ry Ex*

When you have three or four pound of this,
receive the third part and fix it by often fublimt-
tion till it remain in t hard mafs and afcead nq
more but rcimin fixed.

Which is Citlkd the Glue of the Eagle or the
prepared body permanent and the volatile made
fixed which is to be referved foyhe earth of the
ftone.

Dlffolvc the other two parti in Balnso or in i
cold Cellar or put it in a blacker and hang it oven;
fuming hot water till it be all come to water.

Take this water thus made, and digcft it in
a Circulatory well cIofi:dthc (pace of nine days ^^ciC^
then put it in a body with a head and receiver a ^
well luted and in a/hes or Bdneo diftill the wa» Sl/lU/^
tcr of a white coulour or milkic and is called J^.^^,
Lacrini^is) diiTolving all mettalls and fo y^p/^^Ar-
have feperated the ipint of the ftonc which ij "^'^'^^
alfo called the lingring fpirit and the white ^^^^^W^
Tindureoftbe white ftone oiMercnrf.

Take the third part which before you rc^
fervcd and fixed called the glue of the Eagle, fis
n^uchofit asycu picafc and add thereto equal
weight of its fplfit or Lac Vir^^hiis and clofe
ijp the glafs and fo you have joined the Maq
ttnd the woiuan, ^^ with his own Earth 5 the
fpirit with the body.See the Holj Gald. '

Set yo\xr Lac Vir£l?2i^ thus joyned with his

own, Each in 3itlnea to potrih'e i%o iiys sni

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there let ic fttnd unmoved; after forty days ic
will be black, and ic is then called the fiead of
the Crow : then ic will be of ijirccn colour
af|cr that the Peacocks tall, and many falle co-
lours for betvvten this and white it will ap-
pear red but at lad youfiialKee it white and
then encreafc year fire and it will flick to the
fides o'ilLVc jjlal?- like fifhes eyc5 Thcri have ycu
each in the nature of Sulphcr, Kc^A ths^Hdj

Take of this jitlphur as much as you pletre

and wei,h it and add thereto two parts of the

white I'inUtirc or L ic yirpni-s and fct it in Bal-

neo to diffolvethe fpace ofHx days then diftiil

awayjhe Zr^i V;/^/«/^ or 7V;;^/.'r£' and the S^ul-

phur will remain ;n the form of Liquor Tor it is

r>^^ rhe 1 iquorofthe whiCcTulphur of ^ which is

-^ to be joined with the i iquor of the fulphur of

"^Xw^^.toriiver.

The Sulphur of the white Lumn^r) or (ilver
©r L«»^ismadc£s the other whereof we fhall
fpcak more in the next Branch. Thls'Tiquor
ofchefulphur is the foul which is joined with
the fpirit and body which quxkeneth the whole
flonc. The other con/undion before was onely
the union of the (pjritjnd the body: butthu
is ft threefold copalation W^. The uniting of
the foul, fpirit, and body.

Addc equ^Twcighr of thcfc tw©L'quors
of fulphur that is to lay the liquor of the fuN
phur of Mercury and of filver and Luna^ and
clofe well the glalTe and fet it in Afties till
\\ b? whit?> for itwilibeofallcGulours again